“That’s what. I’m going to have my bit out of this job, or there’s going to be something doing.”
“You will tell all you know, eh?”
“That’s about the size of it.”
“But you can be bought?”
“Sure thing. That’s what I’m here for.”
“I see,” said Murdock, with a nod. “But why does it devolve upon her to buy your silence? That’s up to the person who committed the crime. Assuming that you are right, that the man you saw with her on the train had a hand in the robbery, she certainly played no part in it. It’s hardly fair to ring her into it, or to ask her to buy your silence.”
“I’m out for the coin, and I’m going to get it,” Chick grimly insisted.
“Do you know the man, her companion?”
“No. But it’s enough that she knows him, and——”
“Could you identify him?” Murdock interrupted.